I joined the beta back when I first learned of the app late last year. I never really had a chance to properly use and test the app then, as I had started an Apple Music subscription around the same time. Their recent "For You" interface change has left me a bit dissatisfied and now I'm re-focused on my Plex music library, and therefore Prism! I will primarily (at least 90%) be a CarPlay user of this app. In the house I use a Sonos system and I rarely listen to music on my phone outside of the car (just when mowing the lawn or going for a walk). So all of my points below will be primarily based on the CarPlay experience. Note that my Plex library is currently just over 7K songs (and growing) and consists mostly of FLAC and ALAC files, with a few AACs thrown in that weren't available in the other formats.

Playlists - I'm sure part of this is just being new to the app and not being completely sure how to use it, but at first I didn't have any playlists showing in the car. Then I hit the Filter button on the phone and tapped all of my playlists and now they all seem to show, but the songs are in weird order. That seems to be normal from what I read on other threads, pending further update. The playlists themselves also show up in a strange order, not alphabetically/numerically, which I found to be odd.

Playback - I noticed this morning on my drive to work that one song stopped during playback. I'm assuming this was caused by an issue pulling the file from the server (low cell signal, probably) which is fine, but the app couldn't recover from it. The Now Playing screen was still counting time. I tried restarting the track (clicking previous) and it played to the same point again before the audio stopped. I just advanced to the next song and that played fine.

Playback 2 - On the first attempt to use a particular playlist, when I hit Shuffle it only loaded about 10 of the 139 songs. Once I realized this I went back to the playlist screen and hit Shuffle again which seemed to have loaded the whole thing as there were more songs to cycle through.

Now Playing - The Now Playing screen goes back to the Playlist screen, seemingly randomly, on its own. I first noticed it when switching from Waze back to Prism, but then left Prism on the screen for a while and it still did it. This didn't seem to be caused by anything I was doing, as the songs were just playing without any interaction from me. I have a hunch that it is triggered by Prism updating the library, which it seems to do quite often.

Scrolling - I've only tried this on the Playlists tab, but I assume the others will do it too. While the car is moving, I cannot see all of my playlists. Once stopped, I can see and scroll to all of them. I assume this could be a CarPlay limitation since the Apple Music app also does this, but then you have the option to ask Siri for what you're looking for while the car is moving. Is there any way to fix this in Prism?

FLAC Playback - As I've seen mentioned in another post here, almost all of my songs start a few seconds in even though the count starts at 0:00. Hitting the previous track button after a few seconds will properly play the start of the track as expected. I'm certain this is an Apple bug as the native Plex app also does this and I also noticed it on my Mac as well when using the "press space bar to preview" function.

Playback Persistence - I saw it mentioned elsewhere, but just wanted to put another vote for it here. It'd be great to have Prism able to pick up right where it left off automatically when restarting the car. Most other music apps I've used can handle this.

This app is great as-is and only has the potential to get even better with time. The fact that you've taken it this far in just a few months time is already amazing. I look forward to future improvements to the app and to making it my daily driver for music in the car! Thank you for all of your hard work!

I am a paid up owner of Prism, used especially with CarPlay. I am running Plex on Qnap (I have other servers as well). As far as I can see the playlists in Prism have far fewer tracks compared to those showing in the standard Plex client eg 48 in Plex vs 1 in Prism, 596 in Plex vs 352 in Prism. Any idea why?

Is anybody else having this issue on iOS? I’m on an iPhone 8 running the latest version. When playing a track I can select next from the lock screen player and the player behaves as expected. Frequently it will not allow me to go to the previous track from there and keeps restarting the current track.

Hi there, found this App and especially the Audio Book Version Right now. But I’m a bit concerned about my plex account. Is my login stored only locally or uploaded anywhere else? Because it’s not the normal Type a code on the plex website login style.